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Thursday December 14, 2006
Episode 120:
SkypeOut, 3 Critical Updates, WinDVD 8 Gets Blu-ray and HD DVD
DivX: 201MB
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What's new in Episode 120
STUFF
• We've got Intervideo's $26 Win DVD HD Upgrade pack running HD DVD. Next we'll get Blu-ray fired up with it!
• VoIP = Lower your phone bill? SkypeOut is $14.95 a year until January 31st, $29.95 after.... that's unlimited use!
• We've got Belkin's WiFi Phone for Skype in house.
• Wireless guitars for Guitar Hero? 1UPs Garnett Lee gives us the deets on the The Guitar Hero Wireless Controller and the Ant Commados' Freedom V Wireless Guitar Controller
• Your reccos for sub-$100 headphones.
• Aaaaand, the DL.TV Crew has some great ideas for generating RSS feeds.... but FeedForAll was the one suggested by the most folks.
• BTW, DJ DevNull, aka Myron, is right: You should always power down and unplug your PC or laptop before working on it!
NEWS
• Patch Tuesday = 3 Critical Microsoft Bulletins
• UCLA Database Hacked
• Seagate Founder Dies
• eMusic Crosses 100 Million Downloads... (100,000,000th Downlaoder gets song written about him by Barenaked Ladies)
DEALIO
• 50 Free Songs? Check out our Emusic trial membership.We get a bounty, you get DRM free tunes. (Yes, Virginia, you do need a credit card to sign up.)

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Posted By:  Patrick Norton
Posted by: Tommy Fullington
December 14, 2006 7:49 PM

Shoot.. I hooked my old projector (which i found in a dumpster) up last night hoping to watch this episode. But alas, Road Runner Lite doesn't allow it. I hate living in the midwest lol, it doesn't matter if you pay for better internet... copper pipes and lots of people. So I stick with the cheap stuff, I'll just have to watch the H.264 later :(

Posted by: Fernando
December 15, 2006 10:24 AM

Can you guys can add the time show to the day will available?

I check DL.TV during Central Time and it seems the day you metion never availble until later..so, I guess I have to wait :). It worth it! Best Show in Ciber space... ; )

Posted by: robb
December 15, 2006 11:47 AM

ive been watching the show for over a year folks, it's really good im over in sunny scotland, noticed you are saying (SKYPE) is getting cheaper,,, i gave up on skype a while ago i now use (VOIPSTUNT), its free for any landline if your interested

Posted by: Chad
December 15, 2006 1:52 PM

Is there a reason why I can't fast forward episode 120 in the wmv format?

Posted by: BB
December 15, 2006 2:48 PM

what has happened to all the comments....this blows

Posted by: Anonymous
December 15, 2006 4:05 PM

So WHEN exactly will the video be available?! I'm asking at 1PM PST on FRIDAY (that's an HOUR AFTER NOON on the west coast of the U.S.). What broke THIS time? What is it that you guys need to get the show out as promised? Should we become Democrats and throw money at your problem indefinitely or be Republicans and tell you how to do it? I don't like having a "treat" dangled in front of me and then yank the treat away... GET THE SHOW UP!

Posted by: Tim Gatton
December 15, 2006 5:48 PM

so waiting for your review of NAS systems (I know ... it won't be todays ... but someday!).

tpg

Posted by: Nick
December 15, 2006 8:19 PM

No Respect for Feed For All.

I've spent the last four hours searching for a simple script to get my Broadcast Machine (democracy server-side application) generated RSS to display on my homepage (with image, description, etc). Every time I type a search into google with the words "RSS" I get either Feed For All or some other crappy useless paid software and nothing nearly close to what I want. Complete commercial search rot.

I don't want to hear any of that "it's everywhere because it's good crap". Having 50,000 domain names linking to your product and another 20,000 sites that get affiliate rewards doesn't make your product any more relevant to what I'm looking for.

So, if anyone knows a way to the opposite of what the dl.tv gang was looking for on this show, let me know.

Posted by: Lyle Hensley
December 15, 2006 8:49 PM

I have tried with Firefox, IE7, and opera and I am not able to connect to emusic.com any advise?

Posted by: mark
December 15, 2006 9:02 PM

Skype raise there price for skype out? uh oh. time to switch to google talk. :)

Posted by: Toobs
December 15, 2006 11:15 PM

For those who doesn't use ITunes for wants to subscribe to the IPod Video feed using whatever feeder.

The RSS address is:

http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/audioblogs/DLTVvidcast.xml

Posted by: btbamsoad
December 16, 2006 12:45 AM

Come on Pat. Tell us the naughty thing Robbert was doing in his lab.

Posted by: Hamilton Chua
December 17, 2006 7:17 AM

Coincidentally I wrote about using Skype with an ordinary phone using a Skype gateway on a Philippine Tech Blog. You can find it at http://www.pinoytechblog.com/archives/skype-for-your-lola/trackback/. "Lola" is Filipino for grandmother :-)

Posted by: Alex
December 17, 2006 10:41 AM

VTECH has a dual SKYPE landline cordless phone. It connects to your computer via USB. Not bad quality and price is dropping.

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December 17, 2006 11:18 PM

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Posted by: Michael
December 18, 2006 12:45 AM

Hey guys, I just streamed (and enjoyed) the show via the nifty script that Roger requested a few shows back. I was surprised at the response time of the scripts availability.

My thanks to Roger for the request of the script.

Posted by: Corey
December 18, 2006 3:15 PM

Two things:
1) What happened to the giant red button?
2) Why did you stop using the fancier opening sequence from ep. 100?

Posted by: Russell
December 18, 2006 8:04 PM

You mentioned about getting a credit report from each of the 3 services (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) in episode 120. The government required the companies to give out a free copy of the report once a year, but you can't do it from their company sites. If people go to www.annualcreditreport.com, they can request a free report from each of the services. It is recommended you stagger the requests at 4 month intervals. Be aware other sites will offer a "free" report but there are other catches regarding subscription service reports, etc.
One note, if you live outside of the US (as I do) then you will be unable to access the site. You can however get a copy of the request form by Googling form and annual credit report and looking at a cached page for the site. :>)

Posted by: Barrington
December 18, 2006 11:01 PM

RE: Episode 115 PC playing an HD movie

What are the differences between picture qualities of;
1) MS Player connected to HD WIN DVD 8 version?
2) MS XBOX 360?
3) The various dedicated HD DVD players for example
Toshiba version one and two?

Posted by: Barrington
December 18, 2006 11:09 PM

NB! Please delete my previous message, because I quoted the wrong episode 115 instead of 120, thank you!

RE: Episode 120

What are the various differences between the various HD DVDs method of playing HD films?

For example;
1) MS Player linked to HD version of WIN DVD 8 & PC?
2) MS XBOX 360 linked to PC & directly linked to TV?
3) The various dedicated HD players for example Toshiba one and two players linked directly to a TV?

Posted by: Dave M.
December 19, 2006 11:50 AM

The movie you were playing during the HD-DVD demo was "Forbidden Planet". I'm really surprised that "geeks" don't know the movie Forbidden Planet.

Posted by: Dr. Bill Bailey
December 26, 2006 2:26 PM

Another alternative for RSS feeds is DirCaster... it is Open Source and generates the feed by just dropping the file in your directory. It generates iTunes valid feeds as well. It is free and available at:

http://www.DirCaster.org

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